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To: LindyBill who wrote (142269)	10/10/2005 7:50:10 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793914

Ironically, it used to be a big day for Italian-Americans. How respectful are we being to that minority by dissing their Columbus?

To: LindyBill who wrote (142269)	10/10/2005 7:52:43 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793914

I can't even count how many "greats" you'd have to put into "xxx-xxx-*-*-great-grandfather" to get back to 1492 A.D. to complain about this. But I can tell you exactly who gets a rent check from me tomorrow, and (precariously) how I'm supposed to extract it for client work. Do the people who come up with this shit actually have jobs, aside from being 'Head Associate Communal Barista' at Starbucks? "Before Columbus sailed the Atlantic, he was a slave trader for the Portuguese, transporting West African people to Portugal to be sold as slaves. The Columbus legacy is steeped in blood, violence, and death."

To: LindyBill who wrote (142269)	10/10/2005 1:31:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Lindy, I'd have thought the African=American descendants of the slave trade would be really glad that their ancestors were dragged off to the cotton fields in Dixie. I bet not many of them are going back to live in Niger. They are not Nigers now and their ancestors were not wanted in Niger and the other slave supplying places either. Their lives would have been bleak there. The slaves were mostly better off in the ownership of the unlovely Dixielanders than their unloving masters back in Blighty, with horrible exceptions. But bear in mind that life was pretty bleak for everyone who was bottom of the heap back in those days. It's not that great nowadays either come to think of it. Check out Africa now for the fun those at the bottom of the heap are not having. Now African Americans want compensation to boot, because they had the good fortune to be born in the USA. Plus easier access to various jobs and educational establishments, spectrum and all sorts. Mqurice